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[[File:your-movie-sucks-777018-193x300.jpg|link=Roger Ebert|frame|Spoken in his [[Sophisticated As Hell|official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner]]. ]] |
[[File:your-movie-sucks-777018-193x300.jpg|link=Roger Ebert|frame|Spoken in his [[Sophisticated As Hell|official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner]]. ]] |
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{{quote|"''I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it.''"| |
{{quote|"''I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it.''"|[[Roger Ebert]]'s [http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/north-1994 review] of ''[[North]]''}} |
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On paper, the job of a reviewer of any medium is to provide an evaluation of a given work in the medium, outlining its good and bad points and whether you should check it out. Useful, succinct, and an integral part of any entertainment industry. |
On paper, the job of a reviewer of any medium is to provide an evaluation of a given work in the medium, outlining its good and bad points and whether you should check it out. Useful, succinct, and an integral part of any entertainment industry. |
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** [[Ayn Rand]] was one herself, which becomes obvious if you've ever read her denouncing anyone who didn't think like her in her essays. |
** [[Ayn Rand]] was one herself, which becomes obvious if you've ever read her denouncing anyone who didn't think like her in her essays. |
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* [[Charlie Brooker]], of ''[[TV Go Home]]'', ''Charlie Brooker's [[Screenwipe]]'' and "guy who inspired [[Zero Punctuation]]" fame. |
* [[Charlie Brooker]], of ''[[TV Go Home]]'', ''Charlie Brooker's [[Screenwipe]]'' and "guy who inspired [[Zero Punctuation]]" fame. |
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* Dorothy Parker made her living as a literary and theatre critic, as well as writing several books of poetry and short stories. Famous for her acerbic wit, she's one of the most quoted writers in US literature. She's also known as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, the most prominent New York literary circle prior to [[World War II]]. |
* [[Dorothy Parker]] made her living as a literary and theatre critic, as well as writing several books of poetry and short stories. Famous for her acerbic wit, she's one of the most quoted writers in US literature. She's also known as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, the most prominent New York literary circle prior to [[World War II]]. |
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{{quote|"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force." |
{{quote|"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force." |
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"It is at that word 'hunny', my darlings, that marks the first place in ''The House at Pooh Corner'' at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up." |
"It is at that word 'hunny', my darlings, that marks the first place in ''The House at Pooh Corner'' at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up." |
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** Probably the definitive quote on caustic humor: |
** Probably the definitive quote on caustic humor: |
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{{quote|"There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism."}} |
{{quote|"There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism."}} |
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* One classic literary examples is [[Mark Twain]]'s 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary |
* One classic literary examples is [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences]]''. |
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{{quote|"Wasn't it remarkable! How could he see that little pellet fly through the air and enter that distant bullet-hole? Yet that is what he did; for nothing is impossible to a Cooper person. Did any of those people have any deep-seated doubts about this thing? No; for that would imply sanity, and these were all Cooper people."}} |
{{quote|"Wasn't it remarkable! How could he see that little pellet fly through the air and enter that distant bullet-hole? Yet that is what he did; for nothing is impossible to a Cooper person. Did any of those people have any deep-seated doubts about this thing? No; for that would imply sanity, and these were all Cooper people."}} |
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* Even [[Roger Ebert]] has been in on the act; he has said that in many cases it's more fun to write a review of a bad movie than it is to write a review of a good one (a sentiment voiced by several other critics). Many of his most negative reviews have been collected in his books, ''I Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated, '''Hated''' This Movie'' and ''Your Movie Sucks''. |
* Even [[Roger Ebert]] has been in on the act; he has said that in many cases it's more fun to write a review of a bad movie than it is to write a review of a good one (a sentiment voiced by several other critics). Many of his most negative reviews have been collected in his books, ''I Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated, '''Hated''' This Movie'' and ''Your Movie Sucks''. |
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== Music == |
== Music == |
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* Robert Christgau '''defines''' this trope. |
* Robert Christgau '''defines''' this trope. |
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** Sonic Youth wrote a song about him entitle, "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick" after he labelled their music |
** [[Sonic Youth]] wrote a song about him entitle, "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick" after he labelled their music "pigfucker music". Also [[Lou Reed]] ranted about him on a live album. |
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